Man Accused Of Drunk-Kicking Bison Sets Off Yellowstone's Animal Attack Season

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Must we be so judgmental?

Man Accused Of Drunk-Kicking Bison Sets Off Yellowstone’s Animal Attack Season

Tourist season has begun! The National Park Service on Monday announced the first bison attack of the season. An Idaho man displayed “Darwin Award”-level stupidity when he allegedly kicked a bison last week while drunk.

Mark Heinz
April 29, 2024 • 4 min read



The 2024 tourist season has just begun in Yellowstone, and there are already plenty of incidents of people getting too close to wildlife, like in this recent file photo. On Monday, Yellowstone National Park annoucned the arrest of a man who not only allegedly harassed a herd of bison, he kicked one in the leg. (Reader photo: Ralee Plunkett)

An Idaho man is accused of kicking a bison while drunk, becoming Yellowstone National Park’s first bison attack victim of the season, the park announced Monday. ... The incident took stupid human tricks to an entirely new level, the curator of the Yellowstone National Park: Invasion of the Idiots social media site told Cowboy State Daily on Monday. ... “You think you’ve heard it all, and then there’s this,” Jen Mignard said. “That is absolutely nutty. What the heck?”

{Clarence} Yoder, 40, of Idaho Falls, suffered only minor injures in the attack that happened April 21, according to the statement released Monday afternoon by the Yellowstone National Park Public Affairs Office.

Yoder was charged with being under the influence of alcohol to a degree that may endanger oneself, disorderly conduct as to create or maintain a hazardous condition, approaching wildlife and disturbing wildlife.

He appeared in court April 22 and pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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[getagrip_already]

1. Well, at least he didnt plead to not being an idiot....

[marble falls]

2. I fervently pray that when he gets in front of the Federal judge, he gets loud and insistant on how innocent ...

... he is. I know when he was arraigned he had no counsel and it's always better to plead not guilty until one gets a lawyer. But I hope he's ultra MAGA and a true sovereign citizen and refuses the acknowledge the legitimacy of the gubmint.

[sop]

3. International warning signs depicting a bison goring and tossing a little cartoon figure up in the air

are posted everywhere throughout YNP. Another warning sign shows a stick figure falling into a pool of boiling water after stepping off a path and walking across the thin surface crust of a geyser field. Still, every year this sort of thing happens. Some people aren't very bright.

[2naSalit]

4. And so it begins...

Another summer of ignorance and misery. I live so close to the park that I can see it from my front porch, I never go into the park anymore because of all the idiots and assholes.

[Sneederbunk]

5. This may be a cultural thing in Idaho/Wyoming.